Antiochus (father of Seleucus I Nicator)

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Antiochus (flourished 4th century BC, name in Greek: о Αντίοχος) was a Greek Macedonian man that lived during the time of Greek Macedonian King Philip II of Macedon who ruled from 359 BC-336 BC. He originally came from Orestis, Greece.

Antiochus served as a military general under Philip II of Macedon, who gained distinction as one of Philip’s officers. Antiochus had married a Greek Macedonian woman called Laodice. Laodice bore Antiochus about 358 BC, a son Seleucus I Nicator, who would became a military general of Greek Macedonian King Alexander the Great and later founded and became the first King of the Seleucid Empire. It was pretended, in consequence of a dream which Laodice had, that the Greek God Apollo was the real father of Seleucus.

When Seleucus became King, he founded and named sixteen cities in honor of his father, these include the Syrian Greek city Antioch (now situated in modern Turkey) and the Seleucid Military Outpost, Antioch, Pisidia. Through Seleucus, Antiochus would have thirteen Seleucid Kings bearing his name and four kings, bearing his name from Commagene. Antiochus would have various descendants through his son from the 3rd century BC until the end of the 4th century.

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